Tartine bread now available at Whole Foods in LA, but not SF

Tartine Bakery now has bread available at select Whole Foods locations in Los Angeles.

Tartine Bakery now has bread available at select Whole Foods locations in Los Angeles.

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Tartine Bakery now has bread available at select Whole Foods locations in Los Angeles.

Tartine Bakery now has bread available at select Whole Foods locations in Los Angeles.

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Tartine bread now available at Whole Foods in LA, but not SF

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Tartine Bakery has announced you can now find its bread at select Whole Foods Markets locations — but they're all in Los Angeles.

The bread is available at the downtown L.A., Fairfax, Burbank and Glendale grocery stores and Tartine hopes to expand across more of Southern California in the near future, according Samantha Dunnachie, director of business development at Tartine.

However, in the Bay Area, Tartine is currently focusing on new locations instead of grocery store partnerships.

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"Because of our expansion to the East Bay and Inner Sunset, our baking production capabilities are sort of at capacity, so we're busy exploring how we can expand that capacity," said Dunnachie to SFGATE. (Tartine only has one bakery to supply all five of its Bay Area outposts.) "I think once we've figured that out, we'll definitely be open to exploring some wholesale opportunities up there with Whole Foods and other grocery stores that would be a good fit."

You could find Tartine's iconic loaves at The Market on Market Street as well as Bi-Rite Markets until the beginning of this year when the bakery announced it was scaling back its efforts to sell breads outside of their locations in the Bay Area.

By next year, Dunnachie said Tartine plans to come to a decision on how to expand bread manufacturing in the Bay Area — whether that means adding on to its current location or moving to a new, larger space.

In the meantime, Tartine is expanding its catering offerings, as well as partnering with Caviar to begin offering delivery from its Inner Sunset location.

However, according to Dunnachie, "Expanding on our own cafe bakeries is definitely our number one priority."